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Mature, patient and communicative people who will be living together in labor, study, eating, and camping are needed to set up for our permaculture camp. Social skills, as well as a demonstrated ability to work hard, are a plus. Earn your PDC.

As you may know, spring is an especially intense time for agriculture, including agroforestry production like mushrooms. Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute instructors Steve Gabriel and Michael Burns are exceptionally busy sowing and tending animals, plants, trees, and infrastructure at their respective permaculture projects. Your help is sought to get a large harvest of logs inoculated with shiitake in exchange for experience with inoculation skills and a couple take-home logs.

From the beginning, the founding members of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute articulated that a goal for the organization was to improve access to our programming, and in particular to our Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) course held each summer. We are proud to announce two initiatives to increase the affordability of this intensive and life-changing course.

Spend a month of labor, learning and community in a permaculture camp. Earn your Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC). Help set-up the off-grid campus for the the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute’s PDC. We need hard workers who will raise and revive … Continued

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